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Fashion News: Kellan Lutz models. Pippa Middleton heads for TV.

July 28, 2011 | 8:31
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"Twilight's" Kellan Lutz has returned to his modeling roots, shooting sexy new fall ad campaigns for denim brand Dylan George and for Abbot + Main by Dylan George. The ads were shot in a mansion in Beverly Hills by photographer Yu Tsai and also feature model Anne Vyalitsyna. Lutz shows much more skin than he does in the photo at left. [New York Daily News]

Fashion girl-of-the-moment Pippa Middleton will be profiled in an hourlong TLC special Aug. 9. It will show her shopping, among other things. [The Cut]

Galaxy star David Beckham's new line of bodywear will make its debut at H&M in February. [WWD] (Subscription required.)

Whoops! Lancome and Maybelline were taken to task for ads that seem to have been retouched too much. The British Advertising Standards Authority banned ads for Lancome's Teint Miracle foundation featuring Julia Roberts, and for Maybelline's The Eraser featuring Christy Turlington. [Los Angeles Times]

Tom Ford has opened his first boutique in Britain, in a space in Harrods in London. [Telegraph]

Theory's Andrew Rosen, with help from some New York investors, is reportedly poised to buy a 45% stake in Proenza Schouler. The deal would leave Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who founded the label together in 2002, with 65%, and position Proenza Schouler for major expansion. [The Cut]

-- Susan Denley

Photo: Kellan Lutz at a party sponsored by Summit Entertainment during the recent Comic-Con convention in San Diego. Credit: Michael Buckner /Getty Images for Summit Entertainment